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Rebel Code is the compelling account of how a band of mavericks took on big business and revolutionized the computer world. In 1991 a young student, Linus Torvalds, bought a PC and began writing a new software program. It started as a hobby, but in a few years he and a global alliance of hackers, linked by the Net, had developed an operating system that now threatens Microsoft. GNU/Linux is used by millions, and most troubling of all for the corporate giants, it is free. In this definitive account, Glyn Moody tells the astonishing David-and-Goliath story of Linux, placing it in the broader history of the free software movement, and shows what can be achieved when creativity and co-operation rise above the profit motive.
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Rebel Code, Glyn Moody
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Rebel Code
- Subtitle
- Linux and the Open Source Revolution
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Glyn Moody
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 343
- ISBN10
- 0140298045
- ISBN13
- 9780140298048
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Technology & Engineering, True Stories, Biographies, History, Computers & Internet, Technology
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
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- Rebel Code is the compelling account of how a band of mavericks took on big business and revolutionized the computer world. In 1991 a young student, Linus Torvalds, bought a PC and began writing a new software program. It started as a hobby, but in a few years he and a global alliance of hackers, linked by the Net, had developed an operating system that now threatens Microsoft. GNU/Linux is used by millions, and most troubling of all for the corporate giants, it is free. In this definitive account, Glyn Moody tells the astonishing David-and-Goliath story of Linux, placing it in the broader history of the free software movement, and shows what can be achieved when creativity and co-operation rise above the profit motive.